The Fall of the TowersCome and enter Samuel Delany's tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematicians, soldiers and scholars, pirates and poets, and a gallery of aliens who fly, crawl, burrow, or swim. |
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... face blinked up at him . His shirt was torn across his shoulder . He touched the scratch over his collarbone , where a branch had raked him in the dark - but the desert was blindingly bright ; there were no trees . His lips met and ...
... face blinked up at him . His shirt was torn across his shoulder . He touched the scratch over his collarbone , where a branch had raked him in the dark - but the desert was blindingly bright ; there were no trees . His lips met and ...
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... face pushed among the new arrivals . Near fifty , her dress and head - rag were a well - washed gray . " And would you like to buy a pair of shoelaces , fine strong ones , " she accosted a young man who returned a bewildered smile . " I ...
... face pushed among the new arrivals . Near fifty , her dress and head - rag were a well - washed gray . " And would you like to buy a pair of shoelaces , fine strong ones , " she accosted a young man who returned a bewildered smile . " I ...
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... face a fraction different from the rest . Second , there was a ten - inch coil of wire taped to the lower righthand corner . She tore loose the message coil , threaded it into the re - video . On the screen dots of color became the face ...
... face a fraction different from the rest . Second , there was a ten - inch coil of wire taped to the lower righthand corner . She tore loose the message coil , threaded it into the re - video . On the screen dots of color became the face ...
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